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The Dogs of Sonora
American Thinker ^ | 1 Aug, 2024 | Leo W. Banks

Posted on 08/01/2024 4:56:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber

It’s a blazing hot Monday afternoon, the temperature topping 110 degrees in the deserts of southern Arizona, and Maria Rodriguez is on a mission of mercy. She’s delivering a huge load of dog food to the Mexican border town of Sasabe, Sonora.

By her count, some two hundred and fifty stray dogs roam the streets hunting for whatever food they can find to stay alive. The town itself has largely been abandoned. Shootouts between cartel factions fighting to control smuggling routes into the U.S. have reduced the population of almost a thousand people to about fifty, in Maria’s rough estimate.

The trouble began last October. The fighting was so intense that residents grabbed a few valuables and left as fast as they could. Months of quiet led some to trickle back, but more gunfire erupted in late May and they left again. [See also previous AT piece on Sasabe here -ed.]

“Sasabe’s basically a ghost town,” says Maria, who for safety reasons asked that her real name not be used. “But when people fled for their lives, they left their dogs behind.”

Feeding the dogs of Sasabe is deeply personal for Maria Rodriguez, a way of soothing the heartbreak she feels at what’s happened to her hometown. She was born there and remembers it as a happy place where kids played in the streets, families all knew one another and parents didn’t worry for their kids’ safety.

But in 2005, with the danger from cartel activity increasing, Maria’s parents moved the family to Tucson, eventually becoming citizens. Maria was eleven.

She does her volunteer work for Paws Without Borders, a Tucson-based 5013c charity founded in 2021 by Kimberly Kelly, a medical anthropologist for a healthcare company. “Paws’ came together almost by accident.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: abandonedpets

1 posted on 08/01/2024 4:56:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It is really sad what the cartels have done in Mexico. And now they are here with the “third worlding” the democRATs have done to the USA.


2 posted on 08/01/2024 4:56:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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They have established beachheads on this side of the border. And largely ignored by the Biden regime.


3 posted on 08/01/2024 5:13:51 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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They have established beachheads on this side of the border. And largely ignored by the Biden regime.

Perhaps the Biden family got the Big Guy's 10% to open the door and look the other way.

4 posted on 08/01/2024 5:16:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Take Trump off ballots. Fail. Take his money. Fail. Put Him in jail. Fail. Assassinate him. Fail.)
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“It is really sad what the cartels have done in Mexico.”

Thanks to Mexican government. Government in any country is inevitably the root of all problems.


5 posted on 08/01/2024 7:19:08 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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The governments of Mexico are what the people of Mexico produce and have always produced, and their capabilities in that area is being reflected in how they vote when they move to America as they turn our governments into versions of Mexican governments.


6 posted on 08/01/2024 7:49:54 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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